“I’ve been a fan of the Supercars Championship since I was a kid. I’ve always rated the drivers and teams in the category highly,” Austin Cindric said as he makes his debut in a new motorsports series down under. The NASCAR star is set to participate in the BP Adelaide Grand Final at the end of the month as a wildcard entry.

And he’s leaving no stone unturned. Just days ago, a video surfaced of Cindric turning his first laps in a Gen3 Supercar, trying to master the ‘heel and toe’ technique used by fellow Supercar drivers. This shows that for Cindric, this isn’t a vacation drive or a PR stunt. This is a driver fully immersing himself in a different racing culture. And what he sees in this exchange says a lot about the future of NASCAR, Supercars, and cross-series competition as a whole.

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